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I am a 36yr old Hispanic male and my wife is a 32yr old college educated Hispanic. We have a 18 month old babygirl. We are born and raised in nyc (wife in nyc, me in queens) we have always lived in melting pot communities.
After we had our kid we started looking for a single family home. We’ve been saving for the past ten years.
We want the best elementary school possible within a 30mile commute from the gw (have to take the gw due to my daily commute from work).
Working with our realtor we’ve narrowed our search to Caldwell, Verona, Cedar Grove, Nutley, Bloomfield (Mostly Essex county) but have looked at Bergenfield too (Bergen County). We are well organized and budgeted blue collar but want to live within our means so the house would have to be around 450k and for taxes, we want to stay under 12.5k annually.
A lot of houses within that criteria but our concern while researching is diversity. Is it really that bad?
Would our kid not get treated fairly? Bullying?
And are out of towners or new Yorkers not welcome in these communities? Thx for the input.
i think most of the communities you have listed are diverse in their own way, some more so than others. For example, I think Bloomfield and Nutley would be more diverse...not sure about Bergenfield as I've never been there. I think Cedar Grove is diverse, but to my understanding also has a pretty large Italian American population. Verona has very well rated schools, probably the best out of this list. What other things are you looking for besides schools...smaller town feel? downtown area? parks? etc...
I don't think your kids will have an issue no matter where you decide to move...
I am a 36yr old Hispanic male and my wife is a 32yr old college educated Hispanic. We have a 18 month old babygirl. We are born and raised in nyc (wife in nyc, me in queens) we have always lived in melting pot communities.
After we had our kid we started looking for a single family home. We’ve been saving for the past ten years.
We want the best elementary school possible within a 30mile commute from the gw (have to take the gw due to my daily commute from work).
Working with our realtor we’ve narrowed our search to Caldwell, Verona, Cedar Grove, Nutley, Bloomfield (Mostly Essex county) but have looked at Bergenfield too (Bergen County). We are well organized and budgeted blue collar but want to live within our means so the house would have to be around 450k and for taxes, we want to stay under 12.5k annually.
A lot of houses within that criteria but our concern while researching is diversity. Is it really that bad?
Would our kid not get treated fairly? Bullying?
And are out of towners or new Yorkers not welcome in these communities? Thx for the input.
That is funny, because years ago I heard people whisper that Bergenfield isn't a great place to live anymore because it's too Hispanic. I personally know one person who grew up there, now in her fifties, and she is Cuban. When she was a kid, they WERE the only Spanish-speaking family in town, but that was thirty-five, forty years ago.
I doubt very much Bloomfield would be a problem, either. I don't know the other towns that much, but c'mon, there are a lot of Hispanic people in NJ, even in predominantly and traditionally northern European "white" towns. It's New Jersey, for God's sake, not some cornfield town in the Midwest. With several hundred thousand people commuting to the city every day from New Jersey, and millions who either themselves or their parents moved here from the city since the 1960s, do you really think the bolded is a valid question?
From where I sit, I think people like me whose ancestors skipped the city and have lived in Jersey for generations since they came here from Europe are the exception now. And I don't care. My own neighbors are black, white, Malaysian, Chinese, and Brazilian.
That is funny, because years ago I heard people whisper that Bergenfield isn't a great place to live anymore because it's too Hispanic.
The fastest-growing group in Bergenfield is the Filipino community, which is why that town is frequently referred to as the "Little Manila" of Bergen County. The Hispanic population is still larger than that of the Filipino community, but the Filipinos are rapidly gaining on them. I would have no problem living in Bergenfield, even though I have no intention of relocating from Somerset County
The fastest-growing group in Bergenfield is the Filipino community, which is why that town is frequently referred to as the "Little Manila" of Bergen County. The Hispanic population is still larger than that of the Filipino community, but the Filipinos are rapidly gaining on them. I would have no problem living in Bergenfield, even though I have no intention of relocating from Somerset County
Of the towns you mentioned, I think Nutley offers the beat balance of commute, diversity, and good schools. Not the best of any of those categories, but pretty good overall.
I am a 36yr old Hispanic male and my wife is a 32yr old college educated Hispanic. We have a 18 month old babygirl. We are born and raised in nyc (wife in nyc, me in queens) we have always lived in melting pot communities.
After we had our kid we started looking for a single family home. We’ve been saving for the past ten years.
We want the best elementary school possible within a 30mile commute from the gw (have to take the gw due to my daily commute from work).
Working with our realtor we’ve narrowed our search to Caldwell, Verona, Cedar Grove, Nutley, Bloomfield (Mostly Essex county) but have looked at Bergenfield too (Bergen County). We are well organized and budgeted blue collar but want to live within our means so the house would have to be around 450k and for taxes, we want to stay under 12.5k annually.
A lot of houses within that criteria but our concern while researching is diversity. Is it really that bad?
Would our kid not get treated fairly? Bullying?
And are out of towners or new Yorkers not welcome in these communities? Thx for the input.
Where are you from in Queens?
I can give you an idea of what the closest would be to that in NJ.
Though NJ doesn't really have melting pots in the same way. Maybe East Rutherford.
The fastest-growing group in Bergenfield is the Filipino community, which is why that town is frequently referred to as the "Little Manila" of Bergen County. The Hispanic population is still larger than that of the Filipino community, but the Filipinos are rapidly gaining on them. I would have no problem living in Bergenfield, even though I have no intention of relocating from Somerset County
aren't filipinos and hispanics practically cousins?
aren't filipinos and hispanics practically cousins?
What?
No.
Filipinos associate more with other Asians if anything.
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